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Patton’s Last Command
By Alexander LovelaceThe October light was beginning to fade as the U.S. Army limousine sped along the autobahn in the American Zone of Occupied Germany. Read more
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Major General Braddock’s March on Fort Duquesne
By Colonel John P. Sinnott AUS (Ret.)Seldom was the hand of fate so clearly exposed in the affairs of men as it did during the French and Indian War when Maj. Read more
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Imperial Russian Army Uniforms
By Kevin MahoneyThe Russian Army of World War I is comparatively unknown in the West when compared with the other major combatants of that conflict. Read more
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Combat Photographers: Shooting the War
By Susan ZimmermanMuch of what we know today about World War II are the visual images—both still and moving—that combat photographers took to document all phases of this costly human tragedy. Read more
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Deadly Thoroughbred Unleashed
By Michael D. HullFast, graceful, and deadly, the British Supermarine Spitfire was one of the most recognizable and famous fighter planes of World War II. Read more
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Curtiss Flying Jennies Pursue Pancho Villa Across Northern Mexico
By M. L. WebsterAt four-thirty on the morning of March 19, 1916, the sound of gunfire echoed through the streets of Columbus, New Mexico, a border settlement of adobe houses, a bank, a post office and a few stores surrounded by cactus, mesquite and rattlesnakes. Read more
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1st Special Service Force Fight for Mt. La Difensa
By Christopher MiskimonDusk came early as they boarded the convoy of trucks, their olive-drab forms softened by baggy trousers and heavy field jackets. Read more
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Forgotten Substitute
By John EmmertDecades of feature films and years of video games have created an image of the World War II American GI and Marine slugging it out against Axis foes with the M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle and the Thompson submachine gun, with the occasional M1 carbine thrown in for good measure. Read more
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Lee’s October ’63 Move on Meade
By Robert SuhrIn early October 1863, three months after the setback at Gettysburg, three months after Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart was rebuked by his esteemed superior Robert E. Read more
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The Largest Plot to Kill Hitler? – Operation Valkyrie
by Blaine TaylorFor Nazi Party Führer (Leader) and German Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler, July 20th, 1944 dawned as a routine working day at his principal wartime military headquarters, the Wolfsschanze (Fort Wolf) in the East Prussian forest of Rastenburg, some three hundred air miles from Berlin, in what is today Poland. Read more
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Hollywood Delivers the Story of the 6888th Battalion
By D.C. MontanaWhen Hollywood’s Tyler Perry heard a story about the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the U.S. Army’s only all-female, all-Black unit of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) to go overseas in World War II, he knew he had to make a movie about it. Read more
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The Jablunkov Incident
By Peter ZablockiAt around 9:30 p.m. on August 25, 1939, a German Opel staff car burst into the courtyard of the temporary headquarters of the Abwehr (German Military Intelligence) near the Slovakian and Polish border. Read more
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Sargon the Great and the World’s First Professional Army
by Brian GeeslinIn about 2340 BC, the king of the ancient city of Kish, Ur-Zababa, was ousted from his throne by one of his courtiers who went by the name of Sargon, who would later be known as King Sargon the Great. Read more
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Medics: Battlefield Mercy
By Allyn VannoyMen of the Medical Detachment of the 2nd Battalion, 274th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division, arrived in France in December 1944, and within days found themselves in action in Alsace-Lorraine as the unit was sent to help blunt the German offensive—Operation Nordwind. Read more
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The Memoirs of Herbert Carlton
By A.B. FeuerEditor’s note: Noted military writer Bud Feuer especially enjoys discovering first-person accounts and diaries. He found the following in “a junk shop” written in pencil on brown wrapping paper. Read more
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Operation Olive: Autumn Assault in Italy
By Allyn VannoyAllied forces had been fighting their way up the Italian peninsula since landing at Salerno on September 9, 1943. Read more
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Draper Kauffman’s Underwater Demolition Team
By Patrick J. ChaissonLieutenant Commander Draper Kauffman was crawling across a moonlit beach on enemy-held Tinian Island when he first noticed the sound of voices. Read more
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Napoleon’s Egyptian Adventure
By Jeremy E. GreenBy the year 1798, the First Coalition was collapsing. Only Britain remained as France’s implacable foe. With the advent of relative peace, the governing body of France, the Directory, ever in need of cash, now sought new means of employment for the army and its general, Napoleon Bonaparte. Read more
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Cold War Intelligence
By John D. GreshamEveryone who has ever read a spy novel knows the basic plot line. A scientist has developed a formula, or intelligence operative has obtained secret plans or a roll or film. Read more
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The Army ‘Cave Men’ of Iwo Jima
By James BilderAfter 36 days of ferocious combat, the island of Iwo Jima was declared “secure” by departing U.S. Marines on March 26, 1945. Read more
